A court on August 5 temporarily blocked progress on the AD10 billion (USD 7.34 billion) project in the inland Galilee Basin following a claim Adani failed to include conditions to protect two vulnerable species.

The government is trying to ease the prices of pulses but globally there is limited stock of pulses and prices are also high, she said. She further said that Price Stabilisation Fund should encourage states to lift pulses stocks from ports.